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Qui a gagné ? Yes/no questions in the perfect tense

Lifestyle and wellbeing: Des personnalités francophones

Unit Summary

This unit focuses on communicating in the perfect tense, revisiting regular and irregular past participle formation, verbs with être and past participle agreement. Pupils will meet the past participles of verbs like ouvrir, écrire and traduire, and revisit perfect tense questions and negation.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to ask and answer questions in the perfect tense, including negation, in the context of francophone sports personalities.

Key Notes

  • Yes/no questions in the past tense are formed by inversion, asking 'est-ce que' or using intonation, as in the present.
  • To negate in the perfect tense, put 'ne' and 'pas/jamais' around the auxiliary verb (part of 'avoir' or 'être').
  • T-liaison is common in inversion questions in the perfect tense, e.g., 'A-t-il gagné ?'. This eases pronunciation.
  • When transcribing, it's important to think about liaison and where one word ends and another begins.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • inversion: when the subject pronoun and verb switch place to form a question
  • negation: two elements, e.g., 'ne … pas', around the main verb expressing negative meaning
  • t-liaison: the pronounced -t- between the subject pronoun and verb in perfect tense inversion questions

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • The second element of the negative structure goes after the past participle when forming past tense phrases.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain what you can now say or understand in this lesson.

Yes/no questions in the past tense are formed by inversion, asking 'est-ce que' or using intonation, as in the present. To negate in the perfect tense, put 'ne' and 'pas/jamais' around the auxiliary verb (part of 'avoir' or 'être').

2. Define this key language word and use it in context. 'inversion'

when the subject pronoun and verb switch place to form a question. Say or write it in a short sentence so you use the word actively.

3. Correct this common language-learning mistake.

Mistake: The second element of the negative structure goes after the past participle when forming past tense phrases. Correction: The second element of the negative structure is always placed after the auxiliary verb and before the past participle. This requires practice as students are likely to misapply the negative structure learned with present tense.

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